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Mining Anthracite Coal

Reel Number: 221618-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1922

Country: USA

Location: Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 22:16:46

TC Ends: 22:28:17

Duration: 00:11:31

Title: Industrial Geography of the United States 22:16:59 Art Title: Mining Anthracite Coal Art Titles: Number 22; Produced & Distributed by Ford Motion Picture Laboratories... 22:17:20 Title: “Coal is a necessity in the home, the factory & in transportation... 22:17:43 Animated pointer on coal beds illustrated on map of USA, showing subbituminous, bituminous, etc. 22:17:58 Title: “Hard coal is the most expensive...difficult to mine...only in a small area of Pennsylvania.” 22:18:43 Title: “In mining a shaft is sunk... Illustrated cross section of buildings, shaft, coal veins. 22:19:06 Miners onto elevator, gate closed. Animation of car descending 1500 ft. to seventh vein, illustration of rooms, pillars & entries. 22:20:01 Miners w/ flames of headlamps walking past in tunnel. Pose in MCU. 22:20:17 Title: ”The large fans... Ext. High angle of buildings w/ steam rising.. 22:20:31 Title: “Mammoth pumps keep the water from flooding the mine.” Large cylinder raised in shaft, dumping water. 22:21:01 Title: “Coal mining is hard dangerous work”. Man working w/ pick; another drilling by hand. Putting in powder. 22:21:46 Title: “The Explosion.” Smoke & chunk falling. Man w/ pole breaking off loose ceiling pieces; another drills. 22:22:17 Title: “The coal is piled into cars...” Team of mules pulling filled cars past. Men push cars onto elevator, raised. Winch winding cable. Surface & car up & dumped. 22:24:03 LS Ext. Breaker building & enclosed conveyor to top. Int. men working on conveyor pulling off rocks. Small chunks past. Men picking out small slate & shale & other waste while sitting above conveyor. Others standing alongside picking large rocks off. 22:25:13 Title: “Happily this machine can do the sorting as well as the boys.” Pan over multi-angled sorting chutes. 22:25:30 Title: “The coal is now graded into the different sizes.” Slowly past on conveyors. 22:25:43 Title: “A car is loaded & weighed.” Coal down chute into railroad car. Steam locomotive pulling coal train out of yard past many other coal cars. Pan of large loading structures at coal docks of Philadelphia. 22:26:35 Title: “The entire car is lifted up & dumped into the boat in less than one minute.” Dumping car, operator watching from booth above. 22:27:29 PoV on top of railroad train of coal cars around curve in snow; out of tunnel & down hill. 22:27:52 Title: The total coal mined in the United States is 640 million tons. Of this only 1/7 or 90 million tons is hard or anthracite coal.” The End. 1922; 1920s; Industry; Immigrant Workers;

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